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On 09/17/2015 05:13 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> Slightly OT, but the general idea of package management isn't hard. |
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> Put the stuff you should have in a list, then compare what you should |
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> have to what you do have. Go get and install what you don't have, then |
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> make a record that you did it. |
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> Everything needed to get these basics right has been known for 40 years |
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> or more - fellows like Wirth and Dijkstra figured it all out way back when. |
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> Sure, there's always modern stumbling blocks (like why we have subslots) |
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> but that's extra to the essential basics. |
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> So why oh why do the latest generation of wunderkinds (not) always get |
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> it so completely WRONG? 3 runs to fetch all the deps? I suppose wget and |
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> curl don't actually do what I think they do then.... |
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Heavy on bad words and light on solutions, but it made me feel better: |
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http://michael.orlitzky.com/articles/motherfuckers_need_package_management.php |
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